. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. .I will educate you. Find some good pri-mary school and let me know the expenseof tuition, and I will settle with the school-master. You are a rough diamond, myDiena, but I am not to be deceived. Itell diamonds even in disguise. Allneed is polish, and that I will give you. The Herr Austin is very kind, Valeriereplied demurely; I will think of the Hen-Austins proposition. And you will be a great fool if you donot accept it, Gilbert Austin replied warmly. Think of what I offer you, and tell meif there is any possibility of your doing bet-ter, if there is any on
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. .I will educate you. Find some good pri-mary school and let me know the expenseof tuition, and I will settle with the school-master. You are a rough diamond, myDiena, but I am not to be deceived. Itell diamonds even in disguise. Allneed is polish, and that I will give you. The Herr Austin is very kind, Valeriereplied demurely; I will think of the Hen-Austins proposition. And you will be a great fool if you donot accept it, Gilbert Austin replied warmly. Think of what I offer you, and tell meif there is any possibility of your doing bet-ter, if there is any one among your rusticlovers, — I suppose you may have had lovers, gilbert austin makes a mag- J J NAMIMOUS proposition. even over there in the Zillerthal, — who is as much of a gentleman as I am, who can make a lady of you, Diena. How comical he looked in his rough tourist-garb, with his littlecap pushed back in his excitement, his absurd airs of lofty condescen-sion, and his owl-like stare through his round eye-glasses. can you. i5o THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. His conceit is delicious, thought Valerie, and again she mur-mured, The Herr Austin is very kind, but I cannot deceive theHerr Austin. He must see me in my own home, before he bindshimself; his own people must see me and accept me before I will takewhat he offers. Gilbert Austin winced. As you please, Diena, he replied; butI consider it an engagement all the same. This has gone entirely too far, Valerie said to herself that even-ing ; I must get back to Father and Mother as quickly as possible,and she took the early train the next morning, leaving a note for herwould-be lover. When he opened it she was well upon her way. Itsaid only: Diena thanks the well-born gentleman for his kindness,and will think of what he has said. She goes to enter service in Inns-bruck, so that he will see her soon again. He will, will he ? ejaculated Gilbert Austin ; but she does notgive the name of her employers. Does the child wish me
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